Thirty-seven year old singer Mariah Carey says that she keeps her figure by sticking to “bleak diets”, but warns women that “I don’t feel like you have to be a size zero. We should all just embrace who we are physically.”   She said her diet consisted of “soups and fish prepared really blandly.” Carey noted however that she has no intention of starving herself to fit into the size zero mode.

The five time Grammy winner is one of the best female singers in the USA; only Barbra Streisand and Madonna have outsold her, according to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).